 Deepening the dialogue on SME business performance: Are there nonlinear effects as well?Tin Horvatinovic ()
Journal of Economic and Social Development, 2022, vol. 09, issue 01, 01-09 Abstract: Studies analyzing the business performance of small and medium-sized enterprises are high in number and importance. Throughout the years, a vast number of variables have been introduced to explain what causes the observed difference in the business performance of small and medium-sized enterprises. However, many previous studies looked at only linear effects of such variables, while neglecting potential non-linear aspects. This study tried to fill that gap in the literature by using both linear and quadratic effects of well-established variables in the literature. By using linear regression on a sample of 245 small and medium-sized enterprises, this study reports that entrepreneurial experience has a significant quadratic effect, while gender has a significant linear effect on business performance. Based on the employed methodology and results, limitations of this study and avenues for future research were outlined. Keywords: entrepreneurship; SME; business performance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:joeasd:0052 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Economic and Social Development from Clinical Journals Press |
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